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Nashville stripped Memphis of its voice in Congress. Memphians still demanded to be heard.

They sang, chanted, cried and set off 600 personal safety alarms that filled the capitol building with wailing sirens.  Memphians and their allies couldn’t stop state Republicans from carving Memphis’ congressional District 9 into thirds — a result of Republican political dominance in the state government. Memphians came anyway, to disrupt the effort to diminish […]

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